Fantastic Four
#252
[Direct]
(March 1983)
Marvel,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP; 0.75 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1982-12-14
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Tom DeFalco (credited) (editor); Lance Tooks (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
Issue reads sideways, contains Lakeside "Tattooz" freebie. On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #17.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Byrne (signed)
- Inks
- John Byrne (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Rick Parker ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]]
- Reprints
-
in El Asombroso Hombre Araña Presenta (Novedades, 1988 series) #224 -
in Marvel (Semic, 1988 series) #2/1991 -
in The American Comic Book (Ohio State University Press, 1985 series) (1985) [In black and white.] -
in Los 4 Fantásticos (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #34 (Noviembre 1985) - in Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne (Marvel, 2001 series) #3 ([January] 2005)
- in Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 (2011)
- in Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2012 series) #60 - Los 4 Fantásticos de John Byrne 2 (Mayo 2015)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #23 (2021)
-
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Cityscape
Fantastic Four / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- John Byrne (credited)
- Pencils
- John Byrne (credited)
- Inks
- John Byrne (credited)
- Colors
- Glynis Oliver (credited as Glynis Wein)
- Letters
- Jim Novak (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A planet not Earth, in a universe not our own...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Ootha; Franklin Richards; Alicia Masters; Annihilus (villain)
- Synopsis
- While the FF explore the Negative Zone, Annihilus is roaming the Baxter Building with Alicia and Franklin his prisoners.
- Reprints
-
in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #143/144 (mai 1983) -
in Die Fantastischen Vier (Condor, 1979 series) #14 ([1985]) - in Los 4 Fantásticos (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #34 (Noviembre 1985)
-
in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #112 (5 mai 1987) [-1 page] -
in Fantastici Quattro (Edizioni Star Comics, 1988 series) #24 (20 Giugno 1990) - in Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne (Marvel, 2001 series) #3 ([January] 2005)
- in Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 (2011)
- in Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2012 series) #60 - Los 4 Fantásticos de John Byrne 2 (Mayo 2015)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #23 (2021)
-
[no title indexed]
Fantastic 4 Fan Page / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Tom DeFalco
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Editor: I have to tell you my...
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from readers Mark Waldman, Elizabeth Holden, Stu Krull, Matt A. Yockey, Joe Frank, Rod Wahowske, Keith McCafferty and David Allen, with replies from DeFalco.
Follows page 20 of the main sequence.
[no title indexed]
Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 1 page
- Script
- Jim Shooter (signed); ?
- Pencils
- David Michelinie; Jim Starlin
- Inks
- David Michelinie; Jim Starlin
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Clarifications
Indexer Notes
Precedes page 21 of the main sequence. The Hype Box; The Mighty Marvel Checklist.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Fantastic Four -
1.
Cityscape
Fantastic Four -
2.
["Dear Editor: I have to tell you my..."]
Fantastic 4 Fan Page -
3.
["Clarifications"]
Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Del Gruber
- Merlin Haas
- Matthias Hofmann
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Stéphane PETIT
- Mark Q
- Derek Reinhard
- Per Sandell
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Thomson
- Steven Tice
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